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Landlord won't renew lease; tenants go rogue

A pair of tenants packed up and cleared out when they lost the lease last month on their furnished rental on Main Road. They cleared out so thoroughly that after they were gone the place wasn’t nearly as furnished as it used to be.

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Landlord won't renew lease; tenants go rogue

A pair of tenants packed up and cleared out when they lost the lease last month on their furnished rental on Main Road. They cleared out so thoroughly that after they were gone the place wasn’t nearly as furnished as it used to be.

Jason Caldwell, 36, and Steven Blevins, 46, were charged with larceny after the rental agent came in to check the premises following their departure and saw what had happened.

The owner, who lives in Florida, called police “once she determined that Jason and Steven were avoiding her,” according to a police incident report.

The pair had been nothing but trouble, she reported, paying habitually late and making unauthorized modifications to the home.

The inventory of missing items was several pages long. It included two flat-screen TV’s, several end tables, a set of wicker dining chairs, a “cactus” table, a writing desk, some log chairs on the deck along with the grill, outside benches, some lamps, a couple of rugs and a mattress.

Also missing were a chain saw bear, a bunch of dishes, stemware, silverware and utensils, a variety of curios, candles and knickknacks, and a log cabin bird feeder.

The former tenants apparently even paused as they left to take the realtor’s signpost, the report said, because it was gone too.

After warrants were served on the pair, some of the items were returned in boxes left on the porch of the residence. Mostly it was the kitchen dishes. But one of the TV’s came back, along with a single piece of furniture – the cactus table, ruined with a coat of spray paint.